Anyone else's LO not want to Potty train?

We are having the biggest issues with our almost 3 1/2 yr old. She has no desire to potty train. Rewards, gifts, a party we have tried it all and still she has no qualms about peeing in her pants. Uggh I am at my wits end! She has to be potty trained to go to preschool next year and I would like to be done with pull-ups, etc...so just fed up with all of it ...

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Yep, raising both of my hands here!!! Mine doesn't really have any desire either. She will pee on a potty if she doesn't have underwear or a diaper on but if you put underwear on her she will pee in them and very calmly ask you to put a diaper back on her. She doesn't care if she is wet or dirty. Plus she holds her poop sometimes fpr a couple of days and will absolutley not sit on the potty to do that no matter what. We want to put her in preschool this fall or sooner but we can't until she is potty trained. It is driving me nuts. I think potty training is the most difficult thing I have experienced as a parent so far. I HATE it!!!!

I was in the SAME BOAT until last week. Try this. It may not work, but it is worth a try. My LO fought it to no end. I took a stand and told him, no more diapers. He peed through 5 pairs of pants. Then, we went fully naked. When he couldn't feel anything on his bum, he decided he finally needed to sit on the pot. We went fully nude for 2 whole days, then he wanted to put his pants back on. We have only had one accident all week and it was when he was outside with his dad. I say, go naked. Worth a shot!

my 31/2 year is in the same boat. i have a one year old who is still in diapers and when i ask my son 'why don't you go pee and poop in the toilet' his reply is 'don't want to'. REALLY ok so i have thought about naked days...but i am afraid that he will pee all over the house like he did when he was 2 and he would take his penis out of his diaper and go pee in the kitchen, bedroom, toys, books. And when he has his stupid expensive pull up on he says oh peeing. GRRRR.

We were in the same boat until a week and a half ago. DD decided she wants her toenails painted and I told her she had to use the potty all day without any accidents for 12 days. We are almost there on her sticker chart. I had tried all sorts of treats and rewards in the past and nothing helped, I knew she could do it, she just didn't want to on a consistent basis. Thank goodness she found something to really motivate her, I was starting to worry that I'd be PT'ing both girls at the same time.

I did basically the same as emdane. I had to wait (and wait and wait) until there was something he really, really wanted. In his case it was a Little Tykes pick-up truck, until then he had no intrest in going. I made a sticker chart with space for 14 stickers. He had to go 14 days straight during the day and after he went potty and got his pj's on at night he could get his sticker. That was about four months ago and he's been fine ever since.

I'm so with you. Mine has no interest in potty training. We both work and have a sitter that won't let us do anything cloth until she's potty trained, so we have to put her in diapers all day during the week. I'm at my wits end, too, and don't know if she's going to make it to preschool in the fall!